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US6372426B1
US6372426B1 US09/625,059 US62505900A US6372426B1 US 6372426 B1 US6372426 B1 US 6372426B1 US 62505900 A US62505900 A US 62505900A US 6372426 B1 US6372426 B1 US 6372426B1
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  • the present invention relates to a method and a diagnostic aid for the qualitative or quantitative detection of antibodies and for determining their avidity. This makes it possible to diagnose the early phase of viral, bacterial or parasitic infections.
  • the diagnostic aid according to the invention is particularly suitable for automated processing in large analytical laboratories.
  • Immunoassays are frequently employed, because of their particularly good specificity and sensitivity, for detecting immunoglobulins in serum and plasma samples for medical diagnostic purposes. In addition, immunoassays are distinguished by being simple to use.
  • urea The substance which is mostly used, urea, is, at the concentration recommended by the authors, on the point of crystallization, which results in frequent blockage of all pipette tips and tubes of equipment for automatic or partly automatic processing of immunoassays (immunoassay processors).
  • the present invention therefore relates to a method for the qualitative or quantitative detection of an antibody, in which this antibody is brought into contact with the antigen against which it is directed so that immune complexes are able to form, and in which the reaction mixture is brought into contact with a protein-denaturing agent which destabilizes immune complexes containing antibodies of low avidity, while immune complexes containing antibodies of higher avidity are substantially retained, and in which the extent of the binding of the antibody to the antigen is determined by a method known to the skilled worker, wherein the protein-denaturing agent is urea-hydrogen peroxide.
  • the present invention additionally relates to a method for determining the avidity of an antibody, in which the antibody is brought into contact in a first and a second mixture independently of one another with the antigen against which the antibody is directed so that immune complexes are able to form, and in which one of the two mixtures is brought into contact with a protein-denaturing agent which destabilizes immune complexes containing antibodies of low avidity, while immune complexes containing antibodies of higher avidity are substantially retained, and in which the extent of the binding of the antibody to the antigen in both samples is determined independently of one another by a method known to the skilled worker, and where the avidity of the antibody is revealed by the ratio of the extent of the antigen-antibody bindings in the first and the second mixture, wherein the protein-denaturing agent is urea-hydrogen peroxide.
  • a preferred method of this type is one in which the antigen is brought into contact, in a form bound to a solid phase, with the antibody, and subsequently washed with a buffer solution containing urea-hydrogen peroxide.
  • preferred methods of this type include the enzyme immunoassay, radioimmunoassay, Western blot or immunofluorescence assay.
  • the skilled worker is aware of other immunoassay systems which can be carried out straightforwardly according to the invention using urea-hydrogen peroxide by means of the present is description.
  • Antibodies of this type may be directed against viruses, bacteria or parasites such as, for example, EBV, rubella virus, CMV, hantavirus, parvovirus B19, VZV, HHV 6, HBV, HCV, HIV, RSV, HSV-1, HSV-2 or Toxoplasma gondii.
  • the determination of avidity can advantageously be carried out using commercially obtainable immunoassays (for example ELISA), partly or fully automatically.
  • Another advantage of the present invention is the very good interpretability of the results.
  • the novel method for determining the avidity of antibodies is particularly suitable for differentiating fresh (i.e. only recently occurring) infections from older (i.e. less recent) infections.
  • the present invention relates to methods for detecting an acute rubella virus infection, or one which has recently completed its course, a first CMV infection, first EBV infection, first HSV infection or Toxoplasma gondii infection.
  • the present invention additionally relates to diagnostic aids (diagnostic reagents, assay kits) which are suitable for application of the novel methods described. Diagnostic aids of these types are produced in a manner known per se to the skilled worker, based on the present description of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows molarity optimization tests with the protein-denaturing substances urea and urea-hydrogen peroxide in the Enzygnost R anti-rubella virus IgG ELISA.
  • Top panel serum Ab05, serum taken 4 weeks after rubella infection.
  • Bottom panel serum 281, late phase, several years after contact with rubella virus.
  • the wash solution from commercially obtainable ELISA kits is frequently used as diluent solution for protein-denaturing substances.
  • POD wash solution Order No. OSEW, Behring Diagnostics GmbH, Marburg, Germany.
  • any other wash solution suitable in principle for washing an ELISA could have been used.
  • the urea-hydrogen peroxide is used in the range between 2.5 mol/l and 6.5 mol/l, preferably between 4.5 and 6.0 mol/l.
  • the optimized concentration is 5.3 mol/l. It is also conceivable to use urea-hydrogen peroxide in other solutions used for carrying out immunoassays, for example in sample dilution buffers.
  • novel urea-hydrogen peroxide solution is used to carry out an immunoassay, for example an ELISA, by a conventional method.
  • the modification of the novel method by comparison with known methods is that incubation of the sample is followed by washing twice with a volume suited to the method (for example about 0.3 ml in an ELISA based on microtitre plates) of wash solution containing urea-hydrogen peroxide, and subsequently, for example, washing twice with in each case the same volume of wash solution.
  • a volume suited to the method for example about 0.3 ml in an ELISA based on microtitre plates
  • wash solution containing urea-hydrogen peroxide containing urea-hydrogen peroxide
  • the assay is carried out, if automatic operation is required, on an ELISA processor (obtainable, for example, from Behring Diagnostics GmbH).
  • FIG. 1 shows that the novel urea-hydrogen peroxide solution in a concentration range from 2.5 to 6.5 mol/l achieves the best separation between the two groups of sera.
  • the discrimination of the method is to be shown in a group of confirmed rubella IgM-positive sera comparing with a group of confirmed rubella IgM-negative sera.
  • HSV herpes simplex virus
  • herpes simplex sera from the late phase of infection have an average avidity index of greater than about 50%.

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